'Dexter' exec 'doesn't listen to fan reaction'

Dexter executive producer Sara Colleton has insisted that fan reaction does not affect the show.

Colleton told TV Guide that she has "huge respect" for long-time Dexter viewers, but said that the show cannot "satisfy each of the fans".

"I think the minute you do that, you are dead," she said. "We didn't come up with the series based on [fan reaction]. So, all we can do is be true to the show and to the ideas and the style in which we want to have storytelling."

The producer admitted that some fans "hated" the relationship between Dexter (Michael C Hall) and Lumen (Julia Stiles) in the Showtime drama's fifth season.

"There are people who say it was their hands-down favorite season, and then there are people who just hated that we had Dexter fall in love with someone after [the death of his wife] Rita," she said.

"We thought it was like a tremendously bold thing because it would be the last thing the audience would expect and Dexter would never have expected ever for this to happen."

Colleton also suggested that Dexter will conclude "in the next couple of years".

"When we feel that we have ceased finding a really fresh territory that we want to take Dexter, we'll stop," she said. "The one thing I never wanted to do is for us, in a creative mode, to feel like we're just retreading things."